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• kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, it’s due to these birds eating other human-hunted animals, either alive or their abandoned interiora.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are folks killing animals and not eating them or butchering them for their materials? That’s fucken horrid if so.

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    • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My guess is that migratory waterfowl eat lead shot when ‘grazing’ the bottom of wetlands. This bio-concentrates the lead in eagles when the prey on ducks and such.

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      • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works Probably that too, but the major cause is that hunters eviscerate the prey on the spot, so that the meat will last longer and retain a better taste.
        Despite not being a biologist, it is a topic I deeply care about. I have held a few presentations too, for friends and university colleagues.

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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Aight I see how that’d happen. Forgot about the reservoir effect.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the US it’s from lead bullets, they scavenge a lot so they eat it from shot animals.

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